How do I love GenCon? Let me count the ways!

[devilbat]

GenCon Girls Gone Wild!

I was tossing this idea around True Tavern on Friday night. Surprisingly, I didn't get any takers

 

[Desdichado]

reveal... that's weird.

Are you at all surprised by that?

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Are you at all surprised by that?

Not surprised. It was just weirder than usually expect from him... and that's really saying something.

 

[Majoru Oakheart]

Yep. My one registered game was, I thought, going to be an introduction to Eberron. Nothing in the registration material told me I needed to show up with a character. But I get there, and they ask me where my character is, and on telling them I don't have one, they make me pay an extra buck to get one. It's a kobold wizard. Yay!

This sounds a lot like the Mark of Heroes Special Event at Gencon. It is an RPGA event. So each person who plays needs an RPGA number and a character, although they were giving out premade to the new people for 1 dollar (25 cents per sheet for photocopying).

Now, RPGA events are already notoriously linear and have a low amount of role playing. I still think they are fun, however, they are just limited to their format (4 hour long blocks with a hard time limit and have to be generic enough that any group of players can finish them). However, the Gencon Special events tend to be dungeon crawls with very little time to finish them. They try to cram about 5-8 encounters in a 4 hour block, which requires that everyone pay full attention to the game and not get side tracked by role playing that won't help the adventure that much. If this is the mod, I believe it is, then really all you needed to know is "the daughter is likely in this building, go get her." Then you get there and you just kill all the monsters in all the rooms to find her. After a couple of times running the mod, most DMs get impatient with questions THEY know are not important to the adventure because they've been yelled at a couple of times over the con for not moving fast enough and not getting to the end of the adventure.

The special is a bad idea for a beginner, the real reason to play them is that they give more XP and gold to your character than normal Mark of Heroes (the Living Ebberon Campaign) adventures. Plus, they sometimes give good benefits for future adventures.

That all being said, it sounds like you still got a bad DM for this adventure, as there was more room for role playing than that in the mod. Still, they are required to run the mod as written. If they aren't given a description of the person, they don't have one to give you.

 

[Desdichado]

Not surprised. It was just weirder than usually expect from him... and that's really saying something.

Yes, that really is.

 

[reveal]

Not surprised. It was just weirder than usually expect from him... and that's really saying something.

Every now and then I like to lower the bar.

 

[reveal]

Yes, that really is.

No encouragment, please.

 

[Rel]

The special is a bad idea for a beginner, the real reason to play them is that they give more XP and gold to your character than normal Mark of Heroes (the Living Ebberon Campaign) adventures. Plus, they sometimes give good benefits for future adventures.

Wow. It's like "Grinding" in a tabletop RPG. This might be the closest thing to actual WrongBad Fun that I've ever heard of.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

Speaking of GenCon Girls gone wild, the first yeat at Indy, some the the Nothingland users and I were sitting around at about midnight ready to start a game. We were in the main hallway and in come these guys with cameras and a cute girl in a Catholic school girl outfit. They began taking . . . um, risque photos of her when they thought nobody was looking. I think it was at that moment we imagined what GenCon Girls Gone Wild would be like.

Boz, were you there for that unusal circumstance?

 

[reveal]

Boz, were you there for that unusal circumstance?

Who do you think was wearing the Catholic school girl outfit?